Day: August 1, 2014

Categories
Employment

Aug 1st: Employment opportunities

Hello,

 

The UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning is seeking to fill two positions. Both are live on the UBC HR website, closing August 5th.  If you could please assist us in spreading the word to qualified people in your networks and listservs, it would be greatly appreciated. Graduated students can remain on the list and are welcome to apply. I have included some short summaries of the positions here and more information can be found online. For more information about our department, visit our website at www.students.ubc.ca/communitylearning

 

 

Community-Based Experiential Education Advisor (Job ID:_18936)

The Community-Based Experiential Education Advisor collaborates with UBC-CCEL staff and colleagues across Student Development and Services teams to support the development, delivery and assessment of community-based educational programming for students. The Advisor will oversee the development and delivery of training, workshops, and resources to build the capacity of staff across the University to support the learning of students engaged in community-based experiences and initiatives. The advisor oversees the unit’s student advising strategy and ensures educational and administrative systems support the learning of those students engaged in CBEL programs, courses, and self-directed opportunities.

 

Officer, Community Based Experiential Learning (Job ID: 18937)

The Officer, Community Based Experiential Learning (CBEL), liaises & advises on the development and delivery of CBEL experiences across the UBC campus. The officer works closely with partners at UBC, and in the community to co-develop, evaluate and assess CBEL initiatives and partnerships. The officer provides direct support to faculty in Arts seeking to embed CBEL within their courses and programs – including designing curricula, developing learning objectives, identifying appropriate CBEL models, and developing critical reflection activities. The CBEL officer collaborates with other staff at the Centre for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL), as well as colleagues across the University, to support faculty and students to engage in CBEL – both curricular and co-curricular.

 

Applications are accepted online through: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/careers-postings/staff.php.  The deadline for applications will be Tuesday, August 5th.

 

Thank you,

Carly

Categories
Speakers

Aug 1st: Summer Noted Scholars

Public Lecture:

Toward a Research-based Pedagogy

12:00PM, Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310

 

Dr. Zhang Hua, Professor & Dean, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education, Foundations of Education, Graduate School of Education Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang Province, China

 

Bio:

Dr. Zhang Hua is a professor and the dean of Graduate School of Educational Studies at Hangzhou Normal University; former president of International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS); the main expert for National Curriculum Reform in China; and Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research interests include curriculum studies, curriculum history, wisdom traditions (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism), curriculum reform, pedagogy, and teacher education. He has published 9 books and more than 130 papers in academic journals.

 

 

Public Lecture:

Scholarship as Leadership: Carving New Pathways in Education

3:30PM, Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310

 

Dr. Carolyn Bereznak Kenny (Nang Jaada Sa-ets), Professor of Human Development and Indigenous Studies, Antioch University, USA

 

Bio:

Dr. Carolyn Kenny, Ph.D. (Nang Jada Sa-êts) is currently a professor of Human Development and Indigenous Studies in the Antioch University Ph.D. Program in Leadership and Change.  Dr. Kenny previously held the position of Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research at the University of California Santa Barbara and an Associate Professor in First Nations Education at Simon Fraser University. She has served as a Visiting Professor in many universities in Canada, Europe, and Japan. Her professional practices include Music Therapy and research in Indigenous communities.

She is a Board Certified Music Therapist and, as an Indigenous scholar, considers the practice of research in Native communities to be an important aspect of her identity as a “professional”.  Her lifelong research interests include the role of the arts in the revitalization of Indigenous societies, music therapy theory, and policy research with Native women. She has published and presented in many venues around the world. Her works have been translated into French, Portuguese, Bosnian-Herzegovinian, Japanese, Norweigan, German, and Inuktituk. Her latest publication, Music and Life in the Field of Play: An Anthology, is a selected collection of her works over the last thirty years in both Indigenous Studies, Music Therapy, and the role of the arts in social change. Her areas of interest also include cultural studies, philosophy and theory of science, phenomenology, narrative inquiry, and education.

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